Source: The Daily Breeze
Article Launched: 08/20/2008 10:58:03 PM PDT
Hermosa Beach City School District is losing its superintendent to a larger district with similar demographics and high test scores in suburban San Diego.
Sharon McClain, who has served as superintendent at the Hermosa Beach K-8 district since 2003, accepted the top job at Del Mar Union School District at a closed-session school board meeting in San Diego on Wednesday evening.
Board members from Del Mar Union, who had ousted a 10-year superintendent earlier this year, visited Hermosa Beach schools on Wednesday.
"I love Hermosa, I don't want to leave Hermosa," McClain said. "(Del Mar Union) is just bigger, so it's kind of a promotion in a way."
Del Mar Union, a K-6 district with eight schools in Del Mar and north San Diego, has about 4,100 students. Hermosa Beach has two campuses with about 1,100 students.
Both districts have top-tier test scores and majority-white student bodies.
Hermosa Beach will likely appoint an interim superintendent, said McClain, who promised to stay through a short transition period.
McClain's husband, Joseph Condon, is the longtime superintendent of Lawndale School District and will remain in that position, officials there said.
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